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Cleaning out my mother's tool shed I found my fathers 3 wood planes and 2 hand drills. Nothing really antique about them just old. Would it be worth it to sell online?

Also found a lot of garden and masonry tools as well. Thinking of selling those as one lot on Craigslist, don't want to sell them piecemeal. Just lots of odds and ends on other stuff, some I'll give away others I'll try to turn into a few bucks.
 
eBay is asking more and more for their cut these days. Between what they ask, and what payment services charge the buyer, plus sales taxes... the prices just keep going up and up, but I'm not certain the buyer and seller either one are benefitting. Saw Mill Creek (online woodworking forum) has classifieds, but you have to be a paying member to list. I think LumberJocks might have free listings. The /r/handtools sub-reddit is a pretty decent place for listing the wooden planes and drills. Craigslist and FB Marketplace are just a crap shoot. Honestly, the best place might be the 'Can I Have It' aka 'CIHI' group on Facebook - pretty targeted bunch of people who are looking for woodworking hand tools, and know what they're worth.

Only downside (besides Facebook) is they have some convoluted processes for listing, whether it's an auction, regular listing, etc. Definitely worth reading - and re-reading - the rules - and then asking questions, just to be certain.

I might be interested in the woodies, depending on what ya have and what the condition is ;)
 
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if you have a Stanley, Stanley Works No 4 with rosewood handles and the short fat knob in front, with blade clamp screw slot as straight not kidney shaped smooth bottom no. 11 series 1910 to 1924 I would be interested, I have a No 4 that is a great plane in that era it is smooth
 
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I had some stuff that was taking up space that I didn’t need but really couldn’t justify throwing away, I ended taking it to an auction company a few miles away, and they listed it online. I dropped it of, filled out a form which took maybe 5-10 minutes for n amd out total. A couple weeks later they mailed me a check. They took all the pictures and all rhe payment and they got a pretty good cut of what it sold for but I got something for it and had very little time invested. Craigslist and the like are so full of lowballers and time wasters that no show I don’t have patience for it anymore.
 
I wouldn’t sell my dads planes or hand drills.
My office walls are covered up with my grandfathers old tools. Everything from bracing drills with shoulder pads to a solid brass engineers level(transit) that sits in an old dovetailed cherry case. I certainly wouldn't take for any of them.
Wonder how many of you younger fellows have used a bracing drill?
 
All this makes me wonder what my kids will do with my stuff.
Probably the same thing we did with most of my parents stuff.

Not a lot of my parents personal things me or my siblings wanted, we along with the grandchildren took a few keepsakes, I did get my dads Remington 511 scoremaster.

I did give some of my dads personal possessions to some of our long term employees, people that knew and loved him and they were very appreciative of the gesture and cherish those items.

You may consider the same for your dads tools or personal items, friends, neighbors, relatives, or anyone that cared for him, it's like a little connection that keeps his memory alive for others.
 
My office walls are covered up with my grandfathers old tools. Everything from bracing drills with shoulder pads to a solid brass engineers level(transit) that sits in an old dovetailed cherry case. I certainly wouldn't take for any of them.
Wonder how many of you younger fellows have used a bracing drill?
Everybody at work calls me an old guy. I found a bracing bit drill in some old junk and gave it to one of the younger jokesters and he shows it to everybody saying it came off my worktruck back when i had tools.
 
Cleaning out my mother's tool shed I found my fathers 3 wood planes and 2 hand drills. Nothing really antique about them just old. Would it be worth it to sell online?

Also found a lot of garden and masonry tools as well. Thinking of selling those as one lot on Craigslist, don't want to sell them piecemeal. Just lots of odds and ends on other stuff, some I'll give away others I'll try to turn into a few bucks.
Take a picture or two, maybe someone here will know and help. Most of those old hand tools aren’t worth much but they are kind of cool. A few are worth something but it’s hard to know if you’re not familiar with what’s what. Condition plays a factor. It’s kind of like old cast iron skillets, the majority aren’t worth much money but a few are worth a bunch if you know old cast iron.

I still have my Grandpas’s Dutch ovens and hand tools, some tack too. Even though it’s not worth much to anybody else it’s priceless to me.
 
Most towns now have a localized network you can join called NextDoor.com. I'm not a joiner (never on Twitter or FB) but a friend suggested NextDoor and I've sold stuff on there with no hassles. Classifieds but It's also a neighborhood watch and bulletin board. I highly recommend you see if there's a group in your area and check it out. No scumbags like on Craigslist, just people nearby, like an online yardsale, but you can usually get more money for stuff than at a real yardsale.
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I used to think my dads stuff and now my stuff would at least keep their value, not so any longer no one cares what a quality tool is or feels like, Now if it is not battery powered they have no desire to even look at it, I still use some of my dads tools, I marvel sometimes at how long I have owned some of my own. Most work still and some have cords LOL, My dad was a paint maker when he retired, Started as painting apprentice painted homes in SF in the 50s I just tossed the last few remaining paint brushes he had used I finally killed them 15 years or so ago. Lately I have been yardsaleing some tools. I have figured out it is better than just collecting dust
 
I used to think my dads stuff and now my stuff would at least keep their value, not so any longer no one cares what a quality tool is or feels like
Untrue. Woodworking by hand is alive and well, and enjoying something of a resurgence. There are many folks who appreciate the quality of older hand tools, and will pay good money for them. I had picked up a couple of old Stanley planes at a thrift store, went online looking for information about them, and was astounded by what's out there. You can watch videos all day long on YouBoob showing how to select, restore, maintain, and sharpen old wood planes, and how to use them. A recurring theme seems to be avoiding having to sand anything to fit or finish it.
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The block plane has a yoke on the plane iron that makes me think its a Stanley 220 but it has an adjustable throat that a 220 doesn't have. At least the one i got from the antique show a few months back didn't. I gave the guy $5 for it if that helps make you keep dads stuff as a keepsake. I have my great grandmothers hatchet restored in my living room so maybe I am not the guy to ask about keeping heirlooms. I carried a couple of 60.5 Stanleys in my tool bag on a giant job with many carpenters and fixture company with 2 dozen carpenters on the job. When I used it only one or two guys knew what it was, the millennials will not use a tool if it doesn't have a battery and a charger, they bitch if they have to use a corded tool.
 
Well... this is just my opinion, based off those photos, and probably not what you want to hear:

The bad news is two-fold. One, those are in pretty rough shape - looks like they were used hard, and not well cared for. They don't look like they're totally rusted up, so there is that. Two, they are all pretty common items - the Stanley Bailey pattern #5 jack plane is about as ubiquitous as they get. Think of them as the AK-47 of the hand-plane world ;) Unless it's a special snow-flake version with all original parts, they go for anywhere from $5 to $20 at flea markets, pawn shops, etc. Ones that have been restored go for slightly more.

The one with the red frog *might* be a Miller Falls #14 jack plane - that was something they did - but I'd expect to see their tricksy hinged lever cap as well, which it doesn't look like it has. Mine is a later vintage (50's-60's) #14C - it literally says "Miller Falls #14C" on the side of the sole. That doesn't make it a whole lot more rare than the Stanley, though, and from the looks of the length of that plane iron (extremely short), it's been ground down to a nub; it's almost guaranteed to need replaced. A new commercial plane iron will cost more than the plane itself is currently worth, unless you can find one at a flea market. The sole... looks like it was drug down a driveway or something. Probably going to require some elbow grease on about 60 grit sand paper to smooth that out.

The nicest term for those would be 'beaters', and the best case scenario would be to find someone who wants to set up a coarse jack plane for initial rough stock removal as a cheap substitute for a scrub plane. Some people do live for that kind of challenge, and could probably turn either or both of those jack planes into perfectly serviceable 'users' so they could live on - but again, unless they're something special, i.e. made during certain years, etc. etc. those folks aren't going to give you much for them.

By way of comparison, here is a nicely restored Stanley #5, all tuned up by someone who knows what they're doing... for $60.

There are entire 'type studies' out there where people have mapped out which features correspond to when/where particular planes were made. Here's one for Stanley planes, and one for Miller Falls. And for more than you ever wanted to know about Stanley planes in general, there's always Patrick's Blood & Gore page.

There's always a chance that one or the other of those is a hidden collector's item. Usually my luck runs the other way - I end up with "franken-planes". I have a #5C that I started getting excited about... it's got a specific quirky (and annoying) feature that tracks back to very early production in the 1880s. Unfortunately none of the other features line up - because it's been pieced together from a variety of donor planes. Still cuts wood, though.
 
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What he said. When I said certain guys will pay good money for old planes, I meant for the high quality ones, and in good shape.
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